Zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Zum Zusammenhang von sozialer Herkunft, Migration und Bildungsaspirationen
- Author(s)
- Franz Astleithner, Susanne Vogl, Michael Parzer
- Abstract
Educational aspirations depend on social background and influence educational careers. Therefore, they play an important role in the reproduction of social inequality. Children of parents in higher social positions have higher educational aspirations. Furthermore, many studies prove that aspirations of migrants are higher than those of native born. So far, however, the relation between social position and aspirations of migrants and their descendants has not been studied in detail. Based on quantitative online-survey data collected in the last grades of lower secondary schools in Vienna (Austria) in 2018 (n = 2850), we show that the migrants’ generation affects how educational background influences idealistic educational aspirations. Furthermore, we reveal that in contrast to idealistic aspirations, realistic aspirations are not influenced by migration background. We conclude that in the context of migration, specific mechanisms of reproduction of social inequality become relevant. These need to be investigated theoretically and empirically in further research.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Sociology
- Journal
- Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
- Volume
- 46
- Pages
- 233-256
- No. of pages
- 24
- ISSN
- 1011-0070
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-021-00442-3
- Publication date
- 2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504005 Educational sociology, 504021 Migration research, 504002 Sociology of work
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5c33ad62-da9b-4cab-ad1f-556ef06f1895